December 26, 2006
business is brisk on the row
From the London Evening Standard:
Bonus boom fuels £1bn luxury gift spree
Today London’s most expensive retailers said they had never known such strong demand — in contrast to lacklustre sales on high streets elsewhere in Britain.
[…]
In Savile Row sales have risen 10% on last year. Tailors’ shop Henry Poole said it had sold almost 50 bespoke £3,500 dinner jackets in two months. Another tailor, Richard Anderson, said one client had spent £22,000 on two blazers made of Himalayan mountain goat and finished with 22-carat gold buttons.
We’re not exactly complaining at English Cut, either.
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